Word: vising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with you as Harvard students is that you are too comfortable," said Nader. Instead, he said, a Harvard education should be "an imperative for moral leadership. You've got to break that vise of authoritarian control over the University. They'll be proud of you later...
...against Iran and against his own people. Nor could anyone be unaware that some in the U.S. were arguing for eye-for-an-eye retaliation with chemical, perhaps even nuclear, weapons. King Hussein of Jordan, who managed to become trapped between Iraq and the tightening economic and military vise the U.S. and its allies were clamping on Saddam, sensed a "world gone mad." The greatest danger, perhaps, was the rush of it all. In the jittery atmosphere, it was not always clear whether events were driving rhetoric, or vice versa...
American GIs dug into position in Arabia's searing sands yesterday while American diplomats worked the air-conditioned corridors of power, both tightening a vise, step by step, on an increasingly isolated Iraq...
Brazil (1985). The movie too good to be seen! That's what Universal Pictures suggested when it hedged on releasing Terry Gilliam's apocalyptic satire about a man caught in the vise of bureaucracy. The studio couldn't see that Brazil does brilliantly what movies do best: create teeming, coherent worlds beyond our imagining...